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h1. ActiveFedora Wiki
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h2. Overview






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ActiveFedora is a Ruby gem for creating and managing objects in the Fedora Repository Architecture.






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The purpose of ActiveFedora is to make it possible to build Fedora client applications rapidly and efficiently while taking advantage of the best contemporary application development practices.






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Within that, our emphasis is on 






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* refining & popularizing a simple, intuitive and effective content modeling language






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* develop tools for leveraging mature parts of Fedora's Content Model Architecture (CMA)






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* leverage existing search/index techniques in a flexible and modular way






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* encourage creaion & exchange of sane and well encapsulated solutions for metadata management






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* facilitate community innovation & collaboration around user-oriented content-driven application development






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h2. Installation






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[[Setting up Fedora and Solr for use with ActiveFedora]]






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[[Getting the Code]]






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[[List of Dependencies]]






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[[Testing ActiveFedora with RSpec]]






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h2. A sample ActiveFedora application






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MediaShelf is currently building an ActiveFedora-driven Rails app for the  Jewish Women's Archive. To get the source code, go to






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http://www.bitbucket.org/mediashelf/jwa_fedora/






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This Oral Histories management application is a work in progress, but it will give you a sense of how you might use ActiveFedora in an application.






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h2. Disk Image(s) Pre-Configured for Convenience






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[[Blank Fedora/Solr Disk Image]] (Mac OS X)